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Top young WA university research graduates celebrated at agriculture forum By Sheep Central, 26 March 2018 MURDOCH University graduate Lydia Inglis was awarded the Young Professionals in Agriculture Forum top honours for 2018 in Perth last week. Read original article…

Successful SPA leadership program participants announced. Sheep Producers Australia has selected 14 participants to be part of its Sheep Industry Leadership Program, to be run in 2018. The successful applicants work throughout the sheepmeat value chain representing producers, agribusiness, researchers,…

Keynote speakers announced: Animal Production 2018 is excited to announce four keynote speakers invited to speak on innovation, big data, heat stress and consumer demands. The conference is on 2-4 July in Wagga Wagga NSE> The program is taking shape!…

The Trust supports 15 Undergraduate Project Scholarships per year. These are available to suitable applicants from any University.  Each  is valued at $7,000 – with $3500 being allocated to the student and the balance to the University to fund its…

IWTO Channel: Published September 13, 2017 Wool is a fiber with endless possibilities. In this video you’ll discover how wool is grown and how wool products are made. You’ll learn about wool’s many natural properties such as flame resistance and…

Laurence Gatt is a student at Whitehouse Design in Melbourne. Laurence has provided a preview of his 2017 collection, using fabrics funded by AWET’s grant. AWET has also received story boards of grant recipients from other institutions.

Animal Production 2018 program is all about communicating leading science in improving the productivity and profitability of Australia’s livestock industries. A key component of the conference program are four prestigous Memorial Lecture presentations. These are invite-only by the conference organising…

Curtin Students, Emma Watson and Sophie Watson, display their collections in Beijing. AWET provides 25 grants each year to final year fashion students to assist them to utilise wool fabrics in their final year collections. Two of these students, Emma…

NOW OPEN The Australian Society of Animal Production, together with CSIRO Publishing, will prepare a special edition of Animal Production Science to be distributed at the Animal Production 2018 conference, 2-4 July 2018, in Wagga Wagga, NSW. The first call…

Founder of the Hub and Spoke model retires. Professor Cottle was an Associate Professor of Wool Science in the Department of Wool and Pastoral Science at the University of NSW in the 1990s. When the school was closed David worked…